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Nov. 11, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 11, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
And greetings to you once again, ladies and gentlemen, thrill seekers, conversationalists, and music lovers all across the fruit and plain.
The award-winning EIB network and America's anchor man, L. Rushball on the air on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know the rules for open line Friday, so I'm going to dispense with repeating them again.
The President is in Pennsylvania today as we speak.
Giving a combination of Veterans Day speech and a speech in the war on terror, he is supposed to respond to the Democrat and media attacks that he lied about free war intelligence.
In this speech, we are going to now join the president and gyp the speech as he speaks from Pennsylvania.
Bring it on up, Mike.
...is elitist, led by a self-appointed vanguard that presumes to speak for the Muslim masses.
Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, what is good for them and what is not.
Now.
What this man who grew up in wealth and privilege considers good for poor Muslims is that they become killers and suicide bombers.
He assures them that this road to that this is the road to paradise.
though he never offers to go along for the ride.
Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy teaches that innocent individuals can be sacrificed to serve a political vision.
And this explains their cold-blooded contempt for human life.
We have seen it in the murders of Daniel Pearl and Nicholas Berg and Margaret Hansen and so many others.
In a courtroom in the Netherlands, the killer of Theo Van Gogh turned to the victim's grieving mother and said, I don't feel your pain because I believe you're an infidel.
And in spite of this veneer of religious rhetoric, most of the victims claimed by the militants, our fellow Muslims.
And Recently in the town of Huadar, Iraq, a terrorist detonated pickup truck, parked along a busy street lined with restaurants and shops, just as residents were gathering to break the day-long fast observed during Ramadan.
The explosion killed at least 25 people and wounded 34.
When unsuspecting Muslims breaking their Ramadan fast are targeted for death.
Or 25 Iraqi children are killed in a bombing.
Or Iraqi teachers are executed at their school, this is murder, pure and simple.
The total rejection of justice and honor and morality and religion.
Thank you.
These militants are not just the enemies of America or the enemies of Iraq.
They are the enemies of Islam, and they are the enemies of humanity.
And we have seen this kind of shameless cruelty before.
In the heartless zealotry that led to the gulags, the cultural revolution, and the killing fields.
Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy pursues totalitarian aims.
Its leaders pretend to be in a grieved party, representing the powerless against imperial enemies.
Yes.
In truth, they have endless ambitions of imperial domination.
And they wish to make everyone powerless except themselves.
Under their rule, they have banned books and desecrated historical monuments and brutalized women.
They seek to end dissent in every form, to control every aspect of life, to rule the soul itself.
While promising a future of justice and holiness, the terrorists are preparing a future of oppression and misery.
Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy is dismissive of free peoples.
Yes.
claiming that men and women who live in liberty are weak and decadent.
Zarkawi has said that Americans are, quote, the most cowardly of God's creatures.
But let us be clear.
It is cowardice that seeks to kill children and the elderly with car bombs and cuts the throat of a bound captive and targets worshippers leaving a mosque.
It is courage that liberated more than 50 million people from tyranny.
It is courage that keeps an untiring vigil against the enemies of rising democracies.
And it is courage and the cause of freedom that will once again destroy the enemies of freedom.
Thank you.
And Islamic radicalism, like the ideology of communism, contains inherent contradictions that doom it to failure.
By fearing freedom, by distrusting human creativity and punishing change and limiting the contributions of half a population.
This ideology undermines the very qualities that make human progress possible and human society successful.
The only thing modern about the militants' vision is the weapons they want to use against us.
The rest of their grim vision is defined by a warped image of the past, a declaration of war on the idea of progress itself.
And whatever lies ahead in the war against this ideology, the outcome is not in doubt.
Those who despise freedom and progress have condemned themselves to isolation and decline and collapse.
Because free peoples believe in the future, free peoples will own the future.
Applause.
We didn't ask for this global struggle.
But we're answering history's call with confidence and with a comprehensive strategy.
Defeating a broad and adaptive network requires patience, constant pressure, and strong partners in Europe and in the Middle East and North Africa and Asia and beyond.
Working with these partners, we're disrupting militant conspiracies.
We're destroying their ability to make war, and we're working to give millions in a troubled region a hopeful alternative to resentment and violence.
First, we're determined to prevent attacks of the terrorist networks before they occur.
We are reorganizing our government to give this nation a broad and coordinated homeland defense.
We're reforming our intelligence agencies for the incredibly difficult task of tracking enemy activity.
Based on information that often comes in small fragments from widely scattered sources, both here and abroad.
And we're acting along with governments from other countries to destroy the terrorist networks and incapacitate their leadership.
Together with our partners, we have disrupted a number of serious Al-Qaeda terrorist plots since September the 11th, including several plots to attack inside the United States.
Our coalition against terrorists killed or captured nearly all those directly responsible for the September the 11th attacks.
We've captured or killed several of Bin Laden's most serious deputies, Al Qaeda managers and operatives in more than 24 countries, the mastermind of the USS coal bombing, who is chief of Al Qaeda's operations in the Persian Gulf, the mastermind of the bombings in Jerkada and Bali, a senior Zarkawi terrorist planning who is planning attacks in Turkey and many of their senior Leaders in Saudi Arabia.
Because of the steady progress, the enemy is wounded.
But the enemy is still capable of global operations.
Our commitment is clear.
We will not relent until the organized international terror networks are exposed and broken, and their leaders are held to account for their murder.
Thank you.
Second, we're determined to deny weapons of mass destruction to outlaw regimes and to their terrorist allies who would use them without hesitation.
Thank you.
The United States, working with Great Britain and Pakistan and other nations has exposed and disrupted a major black market operation in nuclear technology led by AQ Khan.
Libya has abandoned its chemical and nuclear weapons programs as well as its long-range ballistic missiles.
And in the past year, American and our partners in the Proliferation Security Initiative have stopped more than a dozen shipments of suspect weapons technology, including equipment for Iran's ballistic missile program.
This progress has reduced the danger to free nations, but it has not removed it.
Evil men who want to use horrendous weapons against us are working in deadly earnest to gain them.
And we're working urgently to keep the weapons of mass murder out of the hands of the fanatics.
Third, we're determined to deny radical groups the support and sanctuary of outlaw regimes.
State sponsors like Syria and Iran have a long history of collaboration with terrorists.
And they deserve no patience from the victims of terror.
The United States makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbor them because they're equally guilty of murder.
Thank you.
We're determined to deny the militants control of any nation, which they would use as a home base and a launching pad for terror.
This mission has brought new and urgent responsibilities to our armed forces.
American troops are fighting beside Afghan partners and against remnants of the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies.
We're working with President Musharraf to oppose and isolate the militants in Pakistan.
We're fighting the regime remnants and terrorists in Iraq.
The terrorist goal is to overthrow a rising democracy, claim a strategic country as a haven for terror, destabilize the Middle East, and strike America and other free nations with increasing violence.
Our goal is to defeat the terrorists and their allies at the heart of their power, so we will defeat the enemy in Iraq.
Mike Bocce, heads up, the reply to the Democrats, this is a couple of three minutes away from So sit tight.
Stay glued.
...along with our Iraqi allies is moving forward with a comprehensive plan.
Our strategy is to clear, hold, and build.
We're working to clear areas from terrorist control to hold those areas securely.
And to build lasting democratic Iraqi institutions through an increasingly inclusive political process.
In recent weeks, American Iraqi troops have conducted several major assaults to clear out enemy fighters in Baghdad and parts of Iraq.
Two weeks ago in Operation Clean Sweep, Iraq and coalition forces raided 350 houses south of Baghdad, capturing more than 40 of the terrorist killers.
Acting on tips from local citizens, our forces have recently launched airstrikes against terrorist safe houses in and around the towns of Ubaidi and Husaba.
We brought to justice two key senior Al-Qaeda terrorist leaders.
And in Mosul, coalition forces killed an al-Qaeda cell leader named Muzelet, who was personally involved in at least three videotaped beheadings.
We're on the hunt.
We're keeping pressure on the enemy.
And thousands of Iraqi forces have been participating in these operations.
And even more Iraqis are joining the fight.
Last month, nearly 3,000 Iraqi police officers graduated from ten weeks of basic training.
They'll now take their places along other brave Iraqis who are taking the fight to the terrorists across their own country.
Iraqi police and security forces are helping to clear terrorists from their strongholds, helping to hold on to areas that we've cleared.
They're working to prevent the enemy from returning.
Iraqi forces are using their local expertise to maintain security and to build political and economic institutions that will help improve the lives of their fellow citizens.
At the same time, Iraqis are making inspiring progress toward building a democracy.
Last month, millions of Iraqis turned out to vote, and they approved a new constitution that guarantees fundamental freedoms and lays the foundation for lasting democracy.
Many more Sunnis participated in this vote than in January's historic elections, and the level of violence was lower.
Now Iraqis are gearing up for December 15th elections when they will go to the polls to choose a government under the new constitution.
The new government will serve a four-year term and it will represent all Iraqis.
Even those who voted against the Constitution are now organizing and preparing for the December elections.
Multiple Sunni Arab parties have submitted a list of candidates, and several prominent Sunni politicians are running on other slates.
With two successful elections completed, and a third coming up next month, the Iraqi people are proving their determination to build a democracy united against extremism and violence.
We're getting close.
This may be it.
The work ahead involves great risk for Iraqis and for American and coalition forces.
We've lost some of our nation's finest men and women in this war on terror.
and Each of these men and women left grieving families and left loved ones at home.
Each of these patriots left a legacy that will allow generations of fellow Americans to enjoy the blessings of liberty.
Each loss of life is heartbreaking.
And the best way to honor the sacrifice of our fallen troops is to complete the mission and to lay the foundation of peace for generations to come.
Right on.
Right on.
The terrorists are as brutal an enemy as we've ever faced.
and Unconstrained by any notion of our common humanity or by the rules of warfare.
No one should underestimate the difficulties ahead, nor should they overlook the advantages we bring to this fight.
Some observers look at the job ahead and adopt a self-defeating pessimism.
It is not justified.
With every random bombing and with every funeral of a child, it becomes more clear that the extremists are not patriots or resistance fighters.
They're murderers at war with the Iraqi people themselves.
In contrast, the elected leaders of Iraq are proving to be strong and steadfast.
By any standard or precedent of history, Iraq has made incredible political progress from tyranny to liberation to national elections to the ratification of a constitution in the space of two and a half years.
I have said as Iraqis stand up, Americans will stand down.
And with our help, The Iraqi military is gaining new capabilities and new confidence with each passing month.
At the time of our Fallujah operations a year ago, there were only a few Iraqi army battalions in combat.
Today, there are nearly 90 Iraqi army battalions fighting the terrorists alongside our forces.
Thank you.
General David Petraya says Iraqis are in the fight.
They're fighting and dying for their country, and they're fighting increasingly well.
This progress is not easy, but it is steady, and no fair-minded person should ignore, deny, or dismiss the achievements of the Iraqi people.
applause applause applause And our debate at home must also be fair-minded.
One of the hallmarks of a free society, and what makes our country strong is that our political leaders can discuss their differences openly, even in times of war.
This is it, folks.
Listen up.
When I made the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, Congress approved it with strong bipartisan support.
I also recognize that some of our fellow citizens and elected officials didn't support the liberation of Iraq.
And that is their right, and I respect it.
As President and Commander in Chief, I respect the responsibilities and the criticisms and the consequences that come with such a solemn decision.
Well, it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war.
It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.
Just warming up here.
Just warming up.
Stand by it.
Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war.
These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments related to Iraq's weapons programs.
They also know that intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam Hussein.
They know the United Nations passed more than a dozen resolutions citing his development and possession of weapons of mass destruction.
And many of these critics supported my opponent during the last election, who explained his position to support the resolution in the Congress this way.
When I vote to give the President of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein, it is because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat and a grave threat to our security.
That's why more than a hundred Democrats in the House and the Senate who had access to the same intelligence voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power.
is quoting Senator Kerry there in case you've forgotten that's who his opponent was The stakes in the global war on terror are too high, and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges.
Thank you.
These baseless attacks send the wrong signal to our troops and to an enemy that is questioning America's will.
As our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way of life.
They deserve to know that their elected leaders who voted to send them to war continue to stand behind them.
Thank you.
Yes.
Our troops deserve to know that this support will remain firm when the going gets tough.
And our troops deserve to know that when whatever our differences in Washington, our will is strong, our nation is united, and we will settle for nothing less than victory.
Democrats don't like that word, folks.
It's not in the current lexicon as to what this is about.
The fifth element of our strategy in the war on terror is to deny the militants' future recruits by replacing hatred and resentment with democracy and hope across the broader Middle East.
This is difficult and it's a long-term project, yet there's no alternative to it.
Our future and the future of the region are linked.
If the broader Middle East is left to grow in bitterness, if countries remain in misery while radicals stir the resentment of millions, then that part of the world will be a source of endless conflict and mounting danger in our generation and for the next.
If the peoples of that region are permitted to choose their own destiny and advance by their own energy and participation of free men and women, then the extremists will be marginalized, and the flow of violent radicalism to the rest of the world will slow and eventually end.
By standing for hope and freedom of others, we make our own freedom more secure.
America is making this stand in practical ways.
We're encouraging our friends in the Middle East, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia to take the path of reform.
to strengthen their own societies in the fight against terror by respecting the rights and choices of their own people.
We're standing with dissidents and exiles against oppressive regimes because we know that the dissidents of today will be the democratic leaders of tomorrow.
Thank you.
We're making our case through public diplomacy, stating clearly and confidently our belief in self-determination and the rule of law and religious freedom and equal rights for women, beliefs that are right and true in every land and in every culture.
Thank you.
As we do our part to confront radicalism and to protect the United States, we know that a lot of vital work will be done within the Islamic world itself.
And the work's beginning.
Many Muslim scholars have already publicly condemned terrorism, often citing chapter 5, verse 32 of the Quran, which states that killing an innocent human being is like killing all of humanity.
And saving the life of one person is like saving all humanity.
Thank you.
After the attacks of July on July 7th in London, an Imam in the United Arab Emirates declared, whoever does such a thing is not a Muslim nor a religious person.
The time has come for responsible Islamic leaders to join in denouncing an ideology that exploits Islam for political ends and defiles a noble faith.
applause Many people of the Muslim faith are proving their commitment at great personal risk.
Everywhere we've engaged the fight against extremism, Muslim allies have stood up and joined the fight, becoming partners in this vital cause.
Afghan troops are in combat against Taliban remnants.
Iraqi soldiers are sacrificing to defeat Al-Qaeda and their country.
These brave citizens know the stakes, the survival of their own liberty, the future of their own region, the justice and humanity of their own tradition, and the United States of America is proud to stand beside them.
Thank you.
With the rise of a deadly enemy and the unfolding of a global ideological struggle.
Our time in history will be remembered for new challenges and unprecedented dangers.
And yet this fight we have joined is also the current expression of an ancient struggle.
Between those who put their faith in dictators and those who put their faith in the people.
Throughout history, tyrants and would-be tyrants have always claimed that murder is justified to serve their grand vision.
And they end up alienating decent people across the globe.
Tyrants and would-be tyrants have always claimed that regimented societies are strong and pure until those societies collapse in corruption and decay.
Tyrants and would-be tyrants have always claimed that free men and women are weak and decadent until the day that free men and women defeat them.
We don't know the course of our own struggle will take or the sacrifices that might lie ahead.
We do know, however, that the defense of freedom is worth our sacrifice.
We do know the love of freedom is the mightiest force of history.
And we do know the cause of freedom will once again prevail.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming.
May God bless our veterans.
May God bless our troops in harm's way, and may God continue to bless the United States of America.
And there you have it, President George W. Bush now getting a standing ovation.
He is uh in Pennsylvania today, and he was uh addressing uh an audience of uh military personnel.
This is Veterans Day, as you know.
Uh and he also chose the occasion of this speech to give an update on the uh on the Iraq war, the war on terror, and chose to um uh and we had been alerted to this.
The Washington Post had a story today, the president was going to fire back at critics of the pre-war intelligence, and I uh I have the three paragraphs that he uh that he that he spoke here.
Let me just we're gonna have the audio of this in due course uh as well.
Uh he said our debate at home must also be fair-minded.
One of the hallmarks of a free society, and what makes our country strong is that our political leaders can discuss their differences openly, even in times of war.
When I made the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, Congress approved it with strong bipartisan support.
I also recognize that some of our fellow citizens and elected officials didn't support the liberation of Iraq, and that's their right, and I respect it.
As President and Commander-in-Chief, I accept the responsibilities, the criticisms, and the consequences that come with such a solemn decision.
While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.
Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming that we manipulated the intelligence, misled the American people about why we went to war.
These critics are fully aware that a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments related to Iraq's weapons programs.
They also know that intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam Hussein, and they know that the United Nations passed more than a dozen resolutions citing his development and possession of weapons of mass destruction.
And many of these critics supported my opponent, Senator Kerry during the last election, who explained his position this way quote: When I vote to give the President of the United States the authority to use force if necessary to disarm Saddam Hussein, it's because I believe in a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat and a grave threat to our security.
End quote.
That's why more than a hundred Democrats in the House and Senate who had access to the same intelligence we did voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power.
And then the President said the uh the stakes are too high, the national interest too important for politicians to throw out false charges.
These baseless attacks and the wrong signal to our troops and an enemy that is questioning America's will.
As our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way of life, they deserve to know that their elected leaders have voted to send them to war, continue to stand behind them.
Our troops deserve to know that this support will remain firm when the going gets tough.
And our troops deserve to know that whatever our differences in Washington, our will is strong, and our nation is united, and we will settle for nothing less than victory.
And those were the three paragraphs everybody was eagerly awaiting today in the speech.
There were other high points in the in the speech as well, but those are the three paragraphs that everybody happened to be waiting on.
We'll get your thoughts on uh the uh effectiveness of this.
Some people are gonna say we stumbling through it too much, right?
Can it come out and just deliver this forcefully?
Say it.
The afterlife of these comments is going to be the key, ladies and gentlemen, regardless whether you like the way they were delivered or not, and I didn't have a problem with it, but whether or not you did.
The uh the fact is these words shall be repeated, and others will be asked about these words.
Democrats, the gauntlet was in a way sort of thrown down today.
The Democrats now will have to respond to this, and I can predict what they will say.
Uh uh and you can too.
Uh they will they will say the president's trying to blame them for his mistakes and so forth, and keep demanding even more investigations because that's about all they can do.
Now, given that this is uh Veterans Day, I want to share with you the morning update that we did today on the uh first part of the day to day in our commentary segments on these various EIB network affiliates.
These run early in the morning during what is called morning drive.
In nineteen twenty-one, an unknown World War I American soldier was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery across the Atlantic.
England and France also laid unknown soldiers to rest.
The three ceremonies occurred on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
A nineteen twenty six Congressional resolution gave the date an official name, Armistice Day.
Twelve years later it became an official holiday, honoring veterans of the First World War.
In nineteen forty-seven, World War II vet Raymond Weeks organized National Veterans Day in Birmingham, Alabama to honor all veterans.
Seven years later, President Eisenhower signed a bill proclaiming November eleventh Veterans Day.
The history of the holiday is one thing, but the reason for it is another.
Two hundred and thirty years is not a lot of time in the scope of recorded history, yet during that span the idea that people are capable of governing themselves if they have the will to defend their freedom has transformed the world.
The profound impact of freedom on billions of lives is impossible to calculate.
So too is freedom's cost.
The hardships and sacrifices that American veterans have borne.
Their innumerable individual acts of valor and compassion are known only to the ages.
No other nation in the history of this world has given so many sons and daughters to defend the freedom of others, too often without thanks from those they liberate.
So do our American veterans, each one of you, and to the memory of those who came before you.
Thank you, and from all of us, God bless you.
One other thing.
The president early on in his speech spoke of courage.
And just quite by coincidence.
A thought or two, a little mini essay on courage by G.K. Chesterton from his uh uh essay in 1908 called Orthodoxy.
And it's interesting.
Some of it a little bit difficult to cipher through, but other parts of this just make brilliant sense.
He writes that courage is almost a contradiction in terms.
It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die.
He that will lose his life, the same shall save it, is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes.
It's a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers.
It might be printed in an alpine guide or a drill book.
This paradox is the whole principle of courage, even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage.
A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice.
He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.
A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness About dying.
He must not merely cling to life, for then he'll be a coward, and he will not escape.
He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide and will not escape.
He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
He must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.
No philosopher, I fancy, has ever expressed this romantic riddle with adequate lucidity, and I certainly have not done so, but Christianity has done more.
It has marked the limits of it in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living and him who dies for the sake of dying.
And it has held up ever since.
Above the European Lances, the banner of the mystery of chivalry, the Christian courage, which is a disdain of death.
And I read this today, and I was hoping I would have the occasion to read this without just throwing it in here without uh, you know, as at a non sequitur without some sort of transition.
When the president started talking about it, I ran back the computer, uh computer and and uh printed this out.
Uh because the the part of it that hits home with me is that uh the the business that that uh if if if you're cut off by the sea, you have to save your life by risking it.
Uh you can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it, which is precisely what combat soldiers do each and every day.
And the attitude that they must have about it is also something that's special and unique, and people that have never ever engaged in it, and most of us haven't, will never understand it.
That's why this little short essay by G.K. Chesterton from Orthodoxy in 1908, I think was so powerful to me.
It finally explains what sets these people apart.
So it's Veterans Day, and we salute all of you, past, present, and future, and your families, and we will be back and continue with Open Line Friday right after this.
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Before we go get started with the phone calls here, I just have to tell you something.
A lot of you people have been demanding the president come out and defend himself and respond to some of this.
And by the way, I think this is in my own view here, but I I think I think the president deserves our total support now and needs it.
I know that some of you think leadership has been lacking and there hasn't been a lot, but sometimes you don't wait for the leaders.
Sometimes you become one.
The president came out today.
He offered people what they wanted to hear him say, and it's time now to support him on this, but I just want to warn you.
I have been monitoring the big media.
This isn't big oil.
I've been monitoring the big media.
By the way, I wonder what their profits are, as opposed to big oil.
But anyway, I've been monitoring the big media.
And of course, the big media is taking the three paragraphs from this speech to point out the president's weakness.
I've been through this throughout my career, not to equate myself with the situation.
This is a life lesson.
I've been through this and I've had scurrilous things upset about me in public.
And you gotta, you I find Rush Limbaugh, I know he's not going to sit there and tolerate that.
You gotta fight back.
You can every time I fought back, the critics, aha, we must have be on to something.
You're on defense, you have to defend yourself.
If it was no big deal, you'd just ignore it.
Press is saying exactly that about Bush's three paragraphs where he points out that his critics are full of it, and that they're hypocrites and that they're lying, because they've they saw this intelligence and they said the same things he said.
The press is he's become derailed.
He's now given to responding to his critics.
The real purpose of this speech was to respond to his critics.
He continues to stay on defense.
I just want to warn you that's what you're gonna hear as you keep the big media on, and it's gonna frustrate you because you think and normal uh normal logic would say that somebody responding would force the critics or the people that are sent around watching this to examine.
Okay, the president fought back, he responded, called these people a bunch of liars, essentially, and said that they're they're they're rewriting history.
Uh And of course, the people that are doing the rewriting of history are going to try to spin this.
See, see, we're getting to him.
We're taking him off track.
We're distracting him.
He's responding to us.
You're not going to hear the press.
And the president vigorously fought back today and told the truth about his critics.
You're not going to hear that at all.
So don't don't look for support.
Don't look for um uh any kind of validation on this from the big media.
All right, Patrick in Nashville, your next.
Welcome to the program, sir, on Open Line Friday.
Megadinos Rush from uh Music City USA.
Thank you.
Uh, you have to forgive me if I'm a little nervous.
Uh I've been trying forever to get through, and uh it's an absolute pleasure to talk with you, especially today on Veterans Day.
Thank you, sir.
Um I just wanted to um make some comments about Bush's speech.
Uh that's why we took your call, sir.
That's why we took your call.
Great.
Um this to me is one of the most amazing speeches I think he has given since 9-11.
Uh what was your favorite part of it?
What was your favorite part of the speech?
Well, finally he is defending himself, uh, defending the decisions that he has made, and rightfully so.
Uh he's been getting a lot of flack for for things that have been going on, and it's about time that he finally stood up and responded to the liberals in this country and to his critics.
Um I think it was uh way overdue.
All right.
Now, granted, I I agree, and they're gonna be there gonna be uh a lot of people who have that view, but I'm just I'm warning you again here, Patrick.
You turn on your media this afternoon or tonight, read the newspaper, watch television.
You're not gonna hear that view at all.
You're going to hear the president portrayed as even weaker than before he made the speech because he was re he was reduced to reacting to his critics.
I just I just heard it said on CNN by one of their reporters.
You know this is how this is going to happen.
I'm just be strong yourselves and don't let these people talk you out of knowing what you know that the right thing happened today, and it's about time that uh return fire occurred.
Adam in Burlington, Massachusetts, you're next at Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, how are you doing, Rush?
Good, thank you.
Um, I just want to say I'm a 23-year-old uh Iraq war vet, uh, just got out of the army, and uh I just want to say, wow, um, what a great speech.
Um I'm so I'm so proud um and I'm glad I was able to hear it.
Um I've been waiting for the president to uh defend himself against all these ridiculous claims about uh the war.
And uh really, really loved uh the part where he came in to uh defend the reasons for going to war, and he is absolutely correct about um the Democratic Party trying to rewrite history.
That's exact exactly correct.
Do you think he was forceful enough?
I thought I thought it was great, Rush.
That uh that's my opinion.
I just thought it was great because you know they've been making all these ridiculous crank claims that somehow the president told them that they were weapons that they only went because of that, when in fact, and I'm so glad he brought it up, they were all given the same intelligence, and they all made a decision based on the intelligence that they had and Yeah, but do you do you think he said it forcefully enough?
Um I thought I thought it was appropriate.
Did you not?
No, I'm just asking.
I'm just I'm not I'm not gonna weigh in on this yet.
I you know, when I say something, there's nothing left to be said about it, and that cuts off all opinions from others because it renders them obsolete.
So I'm just asking other people their thoughts here uh before, you know, I presume to render them uh pointless.
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